Re: proposed modules

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Jonathan said:


> 'Easier' than with the old code base.  poppler has code to handle text
> flow and extents, unlike xpdf.  This will let us write caret support and
> stream the text to ATs.  I don't think that the caret will be hard to
> add to the code base.  And simply reading the visible area without the
> caret is even easier.
>
> As I said, this is now a pretty straightforward project -- it just needs
> someone to tackle it.
>  
Thanks Jonathan.  I'd be happy to give suggestions and any guidance I 
can if anyone wants to take this one on.

Bill

> The 'accessibility' features of PDF docs themselves are triviablly
> extractable too, but they really need the rest of the framework before
> doing so.  For example, the alt tag is pretty useless by itself.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
>